Old Zienlefe [ZJN]
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Old Zienlefe
Zienlefe [ʑɪnlɛfə]
Zienlefe [ʑɪnlɛfə]
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[Deactivated User] on 28 November 2018
Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Zienlefe
A language for my own little story, just to keep everything going.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||||
Nasal | m mʲ | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||
Plosive | [p]1 pʲ | t tʲ | k kʲ | |||||||||||||||
Fricative | f fʲ | v vʲ | s | z | ɕ | ʑ | ç | χ | h | |||||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ɕ | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | ʎ [ʎ̝̥]2 | ||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | [ɬ]3 | |||||||||||||||||
Approximant | ʍ | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ ɾʲ |
- Before any consonant or after nasal, allophone of /p/
- Only in syllable coda, allophone of /ʎ/
- Only on syllable coda, allophone of /l/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Near-close | [ɪ]1 | [ʊ]2 | ||||||||
Close-mid | e | |||||||||
Mid | [ə]3 | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɛ4 | ɔ | ||||||||
Near-open | [æ]5 | |||||||||
Open | a | [ä]6 | [ɒ]7 |
- After palatalised consonants, allophone of /e/
- After all palatalised ocnsonants, allophone of /ɔ/
- Word-finally
- Allophone of /e/ after /s/, /z/, /f/, /v/, /ɬ/, /h/, /χ/ and /ʍ/
- After all palatalized consonants other than /m/ and /p/, allophone of /a/
- after /m/,/χ/,/p/ and /ʍ/, allophone of /a/
- After /χ/, allophone of /ɔ/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Zienlefe. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Old ZienlefeOrthography | ||||||||||
Aa/a/, [ä]1, [æ]2 | Cc/t͡s/ | CI ci/t͡ɕ/ | Ee/ɛ/3, /e/, [ɪ]4, [ə]5 | Ff/f/ | FI fi/fʲ/ | Hh/h/ | HI hi/ç/ | Kk/k/, [k]6 | KI ki/kʲ/ | Ll/l/, [ɬ]7 |
LI li/ʎ/, [ʎ̝̥]8 | Mm/m/ | MI mi/mʲ/ | Nn/n/, /ŋ/ | NI ni/ɲ/ | Oo/ɔ/, [ɒ]9, [ə]10, [ʊ]11 | Pp/p/, [p]12 | PI pi/pʲ/ | Rr/ɾ/ | RI ri/ɾʲ/ | Ss/s/ |
SI si/ɕ/ | Tt/t/, [t]13 | TI ti/tʲ/ | Vv/v/ | VI vi/vʲ/ | Ww/ʍ/ | Xx/χ/ | Zz/z/ | ZI zi/ʑ/ | ||
✖ Unknown alphabetical order |
- after /m/,/χ/,/p/ and /ʍ/
- After all palatalized consonants other than /m/ and /p/
- Allophone of /e/ after /s/, /z/, /f/, /v/, /ɬ/, /h/, /χ/ and /ʍ/
- After palatalised consonants
- Actually an allophone of /ɛ/ word-finally
- Before any consonant or after nasal
- Only on syllable coda
- Only in syllable coda
- After /χ/
- Word-finally
- After all palatalised ocnsonants
- Before any consonant or after nasal
- Before any consonant or after nasal